{"id":64426,"date":"2016-02-19T09:00:15","date_gmt":"2016-02-19T14:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=64426"},"modified":"2016-02-19T08:43:16","modified_gmt":"2016-02-19T13:43:16","slug":"us-airstrikes-on-isis-in-libya","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=64426","title":{"rendered":"US airstrikes on ISIS in Libya"},"content":{"rendered":"

Fox News<\/a> report that US F-15 aircraft struck a terrorist encampment in Libya in an attempt to take out Noureddine Chouchane, the mastermind of the attack on tourists in Tunisia last year;<\/p>\n

Local reports initially suggested that more than 30 people had been killed. However, it was not immediately clear how many ISIS terrorists were among the dead. <\/p>\n

Chouchane is thought to have directed the March 18 attack on the Bardo Museum in Tunis, in which 24 people were killed, many of them foreign tourists. He is also believed to have some connection to the June 26 attack on a resort hotel near the Tunisian city of Sousse, where an ISIS gunman killed 38 people.<\/p>\n

President Barack Obama last week directed his national security team to bolster counterterrorism efforts in Libya while also pursuing diplomatic possibilities for solving its political crisis and forming a government of national unity.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The Guardian<\/a> bumps up the number of casualties among the terrorists to 41. The New York Times<\/a> says that US sources claimed that the fighters were mostly Tunisian and it appeared that they were planning new attacks.<\/p>\n

Jamal Naji Zubia, the head of the foreign news media office in Tripoli, said the airstrikes targeted a farmhouse that had been seized by Islamic State militants. Most of those killed were Tunisian, he said, although one man, who died from his wounds at a hospital, appeared to be Jordanian.<\/p>\n

Fighters had been arriving at the house for some time, Mr. Zubia said, although the exact affiliation of the group was a mystery to neighbors. \u201cThey came individually to the house from different places,\u201d he said. Some officials in the area said they believed the Tunisians had gathered at the house to hear a speech by a Muslim religious leader, he said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Te Times also reports that the poor ISIS fellows were mostly killed in their sleep. Too bad, so sad. It’s nice to see this administration actually do something deadly to terrorists for a change.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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